More work junk

[featherynscale]

They're saying February or March now, setting a timeframe for the end of our Happy Office Life(tm). At least on one end of the office. On the other end, they're talking May at the earliest, June at the latest. I'd kind of dig getting laid off in May or June - then I could go to Lumensgate without worrying about what my headspace was going to be like when I got back and had to go back to work the next day. I hope to be working again long before Spiral, of course, regardless of which timeline actually becomes dominant, but a break for Lumensgate would be cool.

I was thinking I could do PhoenixPhyre, but as it turns out, kittenpants and triadruid are gone that week to CUUPS Convocation, so there would be nobody at the house to take care of the pets. Ah well. Hard to plan when you don't have any idea what's happening when.

In other news, jalapeno in my eye. Not Good, Not Good.

I need a writing assignment, something to keep me busy for the next hour or two until I decide that being the only person left up here sucks and I should give up and go home. The brain is running in unpleasant directions, and needs a different focus.

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Writing Assignments

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

• The diverse merits of jalapenos, wasabi, and tabasco as 'heat' additives.


• The etymology of the word 'syzygy'. No fair looking it up directly.


• A persuasive piece on how to get an archangel to change one of their attributes (for instance, Michael -> metal pinions).

Re: Writing Assignments

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

It's difficult to get wasabi in your eye, for one.
And would it be within the terms of the challenge to look for indirect references about the etymology of syzygy? Or should it be purely fabrication on my part?

Re: Writing Assignments

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Your call.

syzygy

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

It comes from the Flemish. Syzygy is a common misspelling when the word is Anglicized -- the letter "y" replaces the letter äu (that's supposed to be a letter "u" with an umlaut; let's see if I coded it correctly).

Phil Collins immortalized syzygy in a song you might recognize: Sussudio,, a classic 80s tune. Although the pronunciation was mangled for the sake of pop culture, the rhythm and enthusiasm of the song really capture the meaning of this word...

Re: Writing Assignments

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Are we allowed to play if we already know?

Damn classicists and their SAT-busting vocabulary :)